Ableism and NARAL Pro-Choice America

via NARAL Pro-Choice America, which is running a pro-choice slogan campaign.  Here are the choices:

Vote Pro-Choice. Politicians Make Crappy Doctors.
Restore Sanity: Vote Pro-Choice!
Just Another Sane, Pro-Choice Voter.
Sanity is Voting Pro-Choice!
Pro-Choice is the Sane Choice

I voted for the first one — why?  Because using “insanity” to discredit opponents trivializes persons with mental illness — a group that already experiences social marginalization and oppression.  It’s an example of what the blog FWD/Forward refers to as liberal ableism, a variation on hipster ableism, hipster racism and liberal sexism, as well as liberal racism,

Oh yeah, in case some folks think I’m just singling out feminist organizations, I’m not too happy with Jon Stewart’s Rally to Restore Sanity either.